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sary Address, for I presume you will allow me to 

 infer from internal evidence that it is yours, and 

 I thank you sincerely for the very handsome and 

 cordial manner in which you have spoken of my 

 two works, the " Principles " and " Elementary '' 

 (or Manual), and the able analysis which you have 

 given of their contents. 



1 Such praise will tell the more in their favour 

 when seen to come from a critic, who is clearly 

 no flatterer of the writer, but one who is as com- 

 petent as he is determined to exercise an indepen- 

 dent judgment on his writings and opinions. . . .' 

 [Lyell then devotes the remaining nine quarto 

 pages of this letter to a defence of his views, and 

 concludes :] ' I shall only add that I rejoice to see 

 this subject freely discussed, and forty pages of the 

 " Quarterly" filled with original and most valuable 

 lessons in palaeontology. By your liberal praise of 

 my two treatises you will hasten the time when I 

 shall be called upon to reprint them. When I do so 

 I shall try and weigh your arguments impartially 

 and dispassionately.' 



In the November of this year Owen wrote 

 another article for the same Review, containing a 

 list of his chief books and papers, and a short sum- 

 mary of the more important. ' It had been pro- 

 posed,' Owen writes, 'for Broderip to do it, but I 

 found it would be easier and perhaps clearer if I 

 did it myself. The list astonishes me ! I wonder 

 how Lockhart will manage, for it is already con- 



